Developers Drawing The Owl

This year’s Hackpack was our most advanced yet. Sporting a joystick, 7 buttons, a touchscreen, a massive battery, and Linux on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, we hoped to craft the perfect badge for both our conference and your next handheld computing project.

We also designed it with a special goal in mind: to release under an open hardware license. That’s why today we’re proud to announce the hardware collateral and assembly instructions are available under the Solderpad 2.0 license.

This year marks the fifth year of Hacktoberfest, a monthly-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean. We’re excited to be a part of Hacktoberfest this year to welcome everyone already in the open source software community, and anyone who is interested in diving in. The best part: you get a FREE t-shirt by participating!

To help anyone who may be new new open source, we built a brand-new TwilioQuest mission to help developers learn the basics of contributing to open source projects hosted on GitHub. With this tool, you can learn basic git commands and workflows necessary to submit code contributions to a repository.

Participants in previous Hacktoberfest events have represented 119 countries and thousands of skill sets. Whether you’re a seasoned contributor or looking for projects to contribute to for the first time, you’re welcome to participate.

My first real paid job was working at the local library in high school. This was perfect because I love reading. With a monthly book stipend company perk and more time to read in my post-grad life, I've started using Goodreads to find new books and to keep track of what I've already read.

This post will go over how to parse the Goodreads quotes page. We'll target popular book quotes and quotes with a specific tag received as input from a WhatsApp message and then send a random quote as an outbound WhatsApp message.

Setting Up Twilio API Sandbox for WhatsApp

At the moment, only approved business accounts can use Twilio's WhatsApp API so we need to use the Twilio API Sandbox for WhatsApp to play around. Let's go on over to the Sandbox in our Twilio console. To activate it we must choose a Sandbox number, agree to ...

As a company that’s built around the developer community, hackathons are a longstanding tradition at Twilio. On June 26, we invited 25 developers from 3 different countries to Flexathon—a day building with Twilio Flex, our new programmable contact center platform, at Twilio HQ. The experts who built Flex from the ground up were on hand to answer any questions and provide guidance if needed. Attendees from companies such as Scorpion, Zendesk, Perficient, DVELP, and AdHawk, as well as independent developers, shared demos of what they built and revealed their first impressions of Flex.

Flexathon provided valuable feedback on the Flex console provisioning experience and documentation. We’ve incorporated that feedback into the product and we’re now in a position to onboard additional customers. If you’re ready to level up your customer engagement and want to know more about what Flex can do for your ...

As a company that’s built around the developer community, hackathons are a longstanding tradition at Twilio. On June 26, we invited 25 developers from 3 different countries to Flexathon—a day building with Twilio Flex, our new programmable contact center platform, at Twilio HQ. The experts who built Flex from the ground up were on hand to answer any questions and provide guidance if needed. Attendees from companies such as Scorpion, Zendesk, Perficient, DVELP, and AdHawk, as well as independent developers, shared demos of what they built and revealed their first impressions of Flex.

Flexathon provided valuable feedback on the Flex console provisioning experience and documentation. We’ve incorporated that feedback into the product and we’re now in a position to onboard additional customers. If you’re ready to level up your customer engagement and want to know more about what Flex can do for your ...

As a company that’s built around the developer community, hackathons are a longstanding tradition at Twilio. On June 26, we invited 25 developers from 3 different countries to Flexathon—a day building with Twilio Flex, our new programmable contact center platform, at Twilio HQ. The experts who built Flex from the ground up were on hand to answer any questions and provide guidance if needed. Attendees from companies such as Scorpion, Zendesk, Perficient, DVELP, and AdHawk, as well as independent developers, shared demos of what they built and revealed their first impressions of Flex.

Flexathon provided valuable feedback on the Flex console provisioning experience and documentation. We’ve incorporated that feedback into the product and we’re now in a position to onboard additional customers. If you’re ready to level up your customer engagement and want to know more about what Flex can do for your ...

At Twilio, we understand developers because we are developers. And we know that while you rock at writing code, you’d probably much rather write the code that counts than spend time on server maintenance, complex state management and dealing with scale issues as your use cases grow. That’s why we developed Twilio Studio — a visual development environment that makes it easier than ever to create and deploy new customer experiences using messaging and voice in no time.

Today we are moving Twilio Studio into General Availability

On the ramp from beta to GA, we made some significant enhancements. We ...

At Twilio, we are experiencing a busy Summer of Flex working with early customers on the road to GA.

Recently, we announced a partnership with Google: Twilio Flex now supports integrations with Google Cloud Contact Center AI APIs to transform the future of customer care.

Flex is a reimagining of what contact centers can be, offering programmability at every layer of the stack. An omnichannel contact center out-of-the-box, with customizations that can be as light or as sophisticated as you and your team can imagine. Flex empowers developers to use tools like Google Cloud Contact Center AI, providing teams with the easiest and fastest way to integrate AI into their customer experience.

The Google AI integration took a small team less than three weeks to build out, showcasing the power of Flex’s inherent extensibility. Flex is an application platform that is both ready to deploy to thousands of agents ...

There are some features of iOS apps that don’t work from the iOS simulator. Maybe you want to test how your application works with the device camera or send an SMS message from your application. For these examples and more you’ll need to test and debug your app using a real device.

This post will walk through how to run the Xcode simulator on your iPhone or other iOS device and show you how to fix some common errors you’ll see along the way.

How to select your iPhone as the “Simulator” Device

Simulator is in quotes here since this will create an actual app on your phone; it’s no longer a simulation. Open up a project in Xcode and click on the device near the Run ▶ button at the top left of your Xcode screen.

On October 17-18, 2018, we’re hosting our favorite event of the year in a new home at the Bill Graham Center in San Francisco. SIGNAL is an opportunity for our community to come together and reimagine how the world communicates. Our mission is to fuel the future of communications. In order to do that, we must take action to ensure a future that is accessible and inclusive to everyone.

That’s why the SIGNAL scholarship program is back. We’ve increased the number of tickets for the program and will be able to offer a limited amount of travel assistance to help more folks from underrepresented backgrounds in tech join us at the event. All you need to do is apply!

Who is eligible for a scholarship?

Anyone from an underrepresented group in tech is encouraged to apply. This includes, but is not limited to: